Secure Photo Storage app for iPhone - Review

The free Secure Photo Storage app does exactly what you think it does: secures your pictures under lock-and-key on your iPhone. There are no special features to the app and honestly, it doesn't look all that pretty. But what you...

The free Secure Photo Storage app does exactly what you think it does: secures your pictures under lock-and-key on your iPhone. There are no special features to the app and honestly, it doesn't look all that pretty. But what you do get is ease of use and simple functionality that will keep your "important" images safely secured on your device.

SPS lets you set a password to access the vault and asks for an email address to send your password to if in fact you forget your password. You can change your password by entering the previous password first, then entering a new password and/or email address.Once that's set up, you can add photos to the vault from your phone's library, or you can snap a pic that will go directly into the vault so you don't have to mess with taking a picture first using the native camera app, then switching to SPS to import into the vault.

Your options for images inside the vault include sending the image via email, or for an in-app upgrade of $0.99, you can add Dropbox support to one-way sync your images to the cloud. I say one-way because all you can do is publish to the cloud, you can't delete files from the cloud and expect them to disappear from your vault. Frankly, I really couldn't find anyway to delete files from the vault, so if you want pictures in the vault, you REALLY want pictures in the vault!

Other quirks include a couple of app crashes, the need to re-enter your password multiple times within the app (that could be a good thing), and publishing pictures to Dropbox took a while. I thought the app wasn't doing anything, due to no kind of publish status indicator. After a while, a message just popped up saying my photo had been uploaded.

Other than those issues, Secure Photo Storage gets the job done - no frills and no special options. Once your images are in, it will take an act of God to get them out...Seriously.